Maybe we can get those NASA scientists to design a 3 meter antenna for Part 15 AM to..
How natural selection helps design antennas, cancer treatments and adhesives
by Owen D. Jones, The Conversation
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-natural-antennas-cancer-treatments-adhesives.html
NASA had a big—and little—problem. For a small satellite, the agency needed a tiny antenna, with very specific communication capabilities and very strict limits on size and weight. The agency gave the problem to a design team adept at simulating the way natural selection engineers solutions.
Design using natural selection is based on a simple but powerful idea with broad applications across the world: When variation in replicable traits exists, and some variants succeed more than do others .... ..
The NASA team adapted that idea to work inside a computer. ... Repeated over many cycles, this process quickly refined the programs that produced antenna designs until a design outperformed a human-designed version—with stronger signal, greater range, and lower energy use—and took less time to develop. It was built, was launched into space in 2006, and performed admirably for the planned 90-day duration of the mission. To me, as a professor of both law and biology, that success points to a broader truth: When people harness the logic of natural selection, they can often find efficient and effective ways to solve complex problems. ..."
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-natural-antennas-cancer-treatments-adhesives.html